i'm not interested in fear mongering and emotional manipulation. i want to look at data. let the republicans be the stupid party.
this is a map that measures where people are being born.
you'll notice something - countries with low birth rates are correlated with countries where women have rights. why is that? because, when given the choice, women tend to prefer to have a child or two, not become baby factories.
so, why do we have these unsustainable birth rates in the developing world and what do we need to do to take them down to the more sustainable rates we see in the developed world?
and, the answer is that we need to fight hard to ensure that women in third world countries have the abilities to make their own choices, by struggling against the systems of religious and patriarchal dominance, by educating them about specific things and by giving them better access to birth control, contraception and abortion.
and, all of the democratic candidates should stand up and say this - or be grilled as to why they don't support women.
this is a debate we need to have, and a debate we need to win, and a debate that the conservatives of the world need to concede their wrongheaded position on.